Regardless of what the price is, it'll be nice to see some new Amiga hardware. Having said that, I'm still hoping it'll be somewhere near affordable. :)

You're right, the keyboard is making my rear look like a chess board! :)

Just as an update, I'm still patiently waiting for new parts to make it in. I might end up turning this whole experience into an article of sorts, and if I do, I'll post it here for all of you to gander at and feel jealous about being new to Amiga. ;)

Hi,

i am ATM a classic user only .. [waiting of new HW ;) ]
But musst say ->

Compile for OS4 and the new feutures FIRST and then for 68k....
Miss realy the new Angband and OpenTTD ports on 68k ... but
understand the reason :)

R-TEAM

OS3.5/3.9 is the usual target platform of software I write. I can't compile for PPC architectures as I use UAE or A1200/060. There's also source code so that others can compile/port for OS4.0/MorphOS/AROS/PowerUP/WarpUP/Amithlon/whatever ...It's difficult to support effectively 7 platforms.

That seems like an awful lot of faffing about for a simple scale operation Raziel !!

Warm welcome to Amigans sanctuary.

IMHO all developers should compile for OS4 first hand.
Then if possible or without too much hassle a OS3
compile aswell.
After all we want Amiga NG to succeed don't we? If it
fails then classics will die completely sooner anyway.

Yes it looks quite nice..

But (always a but) it depends on the price.

It should be under 400? including OS4 IMO. Over 500?
is a disaster. 300? could help Amiga make a comeback.
This of course including VAT.

We probably won't see prices anywhere near 300?
though.. Around 550? including OS4 and VAT is more
probable.

@joerg

Thanks for suggesting scrollmode = 3. Muchmore is now working fine with update 4.

I'm not really sure where to post this, so if Free for All is the wrong place, please move it to the right one.

Tonight I tried to log in and kept getting an incorrect log in message. I had a new password sent to my email, and when I used that password to log in (with my usual username) I was able to log in, but the system said that there was no user info for this user. Then I tried logging in with the username I actually signed up with, got the incorrect log in, looked away to think, looked back and I was logged in! (?) I have, of course changed my password (just so be safe). But, it seems that my username has been changed to my usual username. Where's that :dizzy: emoticon?

Boy that was a strange log in!

LCD touch screen interface!

Quote:

looks like a nice starter system if the price is right???

It would be nice if one could buy an A600 style case for this.

Yep, i am excited about it. Small little board, no fans, Clone-A in the FPGA, OS4.. Sounds good to me.

@soulassasin

im more hopeful about ANY new generation amiga hardware, hopeful it materialises, hopeful it becomes available in quantities that mean we dont wait 2 months for it.most of all i hope OS4 becomes available before we lose more of the computer hobbiest market

ZanT

does everybody else think, there are one of the companies that amiga.inc daid they were in talks with?

YES! The SAM440-Amiga is looking awesome from what I have seen in the news items on this website.
I will definately be the first in the queue to buy this hardware. A next generation Amiga is all that I currently dream of.
I applaud all efforts aimed at bringing a new next generation Amiga computer to the market and into the hands of the customers.

@Antique

Do it the Amiga-way...

1. Get PicShow and SGrab from Aminet
2. Load your to-be-avatar pic in PicShow, go to the "Action" menu
Go to "Change Size", change the BIGGER size of the pic to 120pixels
and press return, now the smaller size (vertical or horizontal -
whatever it will be) is changed accordingly to fit it) and press "OK"

Now there should be your avatar in the right size on the middle of your screen

3. Start SGrab and change the filetype option (on the bottom) to JPEG
(leave all the options as they are), now look beneath the window (where the
open screens and windows are listed) and tick "Windows" and "Only contents"

Remember the max size (horizontal or vertical must not be bigger than 120)

Choose PicShow's window (which now holds your avatar pic in the right size
and press SAVE, after that do a VIEW to be sure you grabbed the right window

4. Go to your account and upload the avatar...

Tadaaa...Amiga-like

Yes I am quite excited about getting one, I will be very happy to have a MiniAmiga system capable of running OS4

title says it all really